My grandmother never bought an item on a whim. She would examine the things laid out on the market stall this way and that, and only after exchanging words back and forth with the seller would she open her wallet. The Choi family, who would not tell a lie even with a knife at their throat; the Park family, ill-tempered but with goods to die for. Vegetables and fruit bought that way never failed once. If anyone asked for the secret to choosing things, my grandmother would answer ‘intuition’.
